“How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.”
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You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage, ' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice, ' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.
In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.